VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL

VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment middle school in SCHENECTADY, New York, one of the schools within NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 442 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,315 students; VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Schenectady County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.2%; this one delivers 75.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Schenectady County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HILLSIDE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL has climbed 5%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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